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Monday, July 30, 2001
First of all, many thanks to all of you who e-mailed, posted comments, and even called me at home to extend condolences and inquire after me. The blogging community continues to amaze me with its depth, diversity, and compassion. Your kind words and thoughts mean a lot.
All the "kitty stuff" is gone... food bowls, toys, litterboxes, the carrier have been removed. The perch that looked out on Kensington Street has been taken down, the mounting screw-holes soon to be patched with wood filler. How odd not to have the clutter in his feeding area, to not have "crumbs" to clean up due to his bizarre inability to eat over his bowl.
No "tump - tump- tump - tump - tump" down the stairs as I walk into the dining room and drop my keys on the table. I sit in my chair, half expecting him to jump up and arrange himself straddled on the right arm, close enough for a nuzzle, a lick on my forearm, his head conveniently within scratching range.
No waking suddenly to the tap of his soft paw on my face when he's in "quiet mode", or to the full catalog of his purrs, peeps, murmurs, meows, howls when he's feeling "chatty".
The house is very quiet without him.
What Happened -- [more]
Posted by Mattee @ 06:32 PM EST [Link]
Friday, July 27, 2001
Goodbye, Ollie...
Oliver
July ??, 1989 - July 27, 2001
More Pics:
Amidst the ferns
Lookin' Left
(images © 1989-1992 Kerry Shirk/The Picture Place.)
Posted by Mattee @ 02:51 PM EST [Link]
Thursday, July 26, 2001
Talk about overkill!
Unbelievable. A cop in Toledo threatens a tourist in a bus station for "reading pornography" in public. What publication, you ask...Penthouse? Playboy? Hustler? Nope, seems Officer Friendly's all offended by Esquire Magazine.
WTF? Read the Salon story here.
Posted by Mattee @ 08:49 PM EST [Link]
Tourist - Queen
Things are shaping up for my visit to New York over the weekend. In addition to the aforementioned meeting with the "Brtits", I'll be joining the incomparable Blogstalker for coffee (and maybe get to meet the faboo Dex, if the weather's decent). Hey EB, no headlocks, I'm delicate, 'kay? :) Time will tell whether my itinerary will include any other meetings.
Wanna meet me? Mail me!UPDATE - July 27, 2001: Trip cancelled due to pet emergency. See July 27 entry above.
Posted by Mattee @ 07:11 PM EST [Link]
Techno - Queen
On a MUCH lighter note, I've been testing some new Telecom Equipment at work.
Cordless Headset and a remote phone lifter. Oooh! It makes me wanna touch myself.
For my fellow bloggers that work customer service/call center jobs, I'm sure you'll know why someone can be excited over something so trivial as this. I've been able to check on status monitors across the room without having to put someone on hold. If my phone rings while across the room, I don't have to sprint back to my desk. FAABULOUS.
Applicability/Usefulness for my work: 10
Likelihood the budget will support purchase: 0
Posted by Mattee @ 06:38 PM EST [Link]
Control Queen
Hi, I'm Mattee, and I'm a recovering Control Queen.
You know, after all those years of therapy, I thought I had my shit in order, that I'd broken ALL the old patterns, learned all the lessons. Unfortunately, the old "stuff" can surface and bite me in the ass without me even seeing it coming.
It has to do with the "rough patch with the boyfriend" that I alluded to in this post. Without revealing too much, lets just say an issue came up where the BF wanted me to do a particular thing in a certain timeframe. Subconsciously, my inner CQ got tweaked because I felt like I was losing control over the decision. My response was to say, "OK, if by doing this thing we get a result of A, then I'm outta here" ... meaning, I'd pull the plug on our relationship..
Although this sounds more like a Drama Queen (DQ) response, it wasn't .. I meant it, at the time. When I reported this to a couple of my best friends, they both responded similarly, although carefully and supportively:
"So, you're making this decision with absolutely no input from the BF?"
"Yes." I replied.
"And he has nothing to say about it."
I said, "No, it's not his decision."
Pause.
"Are you sure you want to take that position, given how well things have been going, how happy you are, and how well you've been communicating so far?"
Bang! That's when I realized what was happening. What does a Control Queen do when feeling a loss of Control? Answer: Clamp Down even harder regarding every other issue or decision that needs to be made. How insane - I can't even believe I could allow the words "he has no say in the matter" out of my mouth.
The issue at hand was necessarily postponed because of a third party's schedule, so we've not raised it again. When we do, I'll be sure to apologize and try to explain all of this to him.
Posted by Mattee @ 06:21 PM EST [Link]
Tuesday, July 24, 2001
Geez, how sweet..
In recent years, I would define myself as a post - gay, non - traditional sort of homo (not to mention the whole "butch Daddy" groove I've got doing on right now). HA! All it takes is one romantic story, and I turn into a puddle of syrupy, teary-eyed mush.
Congratulations to JillMatrix and her sweetie. You go, guurrrlz!
Posted by Mattee @ 05:25 PM EST [Link]
Saturday, July 21, 2001
Lazy Saturday
Not a lot of ambition today. About all I managed to do was get up (at Noon!), go out for Breakfast, hit the grocery store, then come home and pull a few weeds. I did spend a little time outside, but ended up tweaking the blog, updating my blog links and food links.
The only ambition I have today is for cooking. I'm making Cajun Catfish, with onions, green pepper, and okra. I've never eaten okra in my life. I'll give a review later.
Quiet evening anticipated. The BF has the kids, so I'll probably spend the night watching Network TV, or I'll rent a video, or maybe, just maybe, I'll finally finish that Philly entry I've been promising.
Posted by Mattee @ 06:11 PM EST [Link]
Thursday, July 19, 2001
New York BoundBound for New York(I'm sorry, "New York Bound" sounded like a bad S&M porn movie title...)
Well, I'll be arriving in New York via Amtrak just before 11AM on the 28th. Planning to hang with Jonathan and David (how biblical!) on Saturday (still Kid Creole at Central Park?)
I'll be staying at the Hotel Pennsylvania that evening, and will be departing at 3:10 pm Sunday for the train back to Harrisburg.
I'd love to meet any and all of you New York area Bloggers (or, at least, those of you who won't be hosting a party on Fire Island). Let me know if you want to get together.
BONUS! Click here for a neat popup graphic from the forties that immortalized that famous phone number.
Posted by Mattee @ 06:39 PM EST [Link]
"Who are you, and what have you done with Beau?!"
Just as I predicted. I knew the moment Beau and Jeff signed those papers, they'd never be the same. Verily, it has come to pass... Beau has been possessed by the evil spirit of Ma@tha St**wart.
Evil, I tell you, Ma@tha is pure evil. Next thing you know, he'll be using that chainsaw to create "whimsical" sculptures of gnomes to place in the "charming" herb garden. AUUUGGGH! Bobo! Go not to the dark side... walk towards the light.. walk towards the light!
Posted by Mattee @ 06:01 PM EST [Link]
Wednesday, July 18, 2001
Back on Track..
Back to work, back in the grind. Not much to blog about today.
Hit a bit of a rough patch with the BF this week...we had our first major conflict. I won't get into details here, but I think we've worked it out. Going to his house after work for a sleep-over, we'll talk more then.
Apologies for the linkless, blah posts of late. Hope to get back into the blogging "swing" by the weekend.
Posted by Mattee @ 09:31 PM EST [Link]
Sunday, July 15, 2001
On the Mend
Thank you for all the well-wishes, everyone. I'm happy to report that I am finally feeling better, and plan to return to work tomorrow. Unfortunately, I had to cancel out of the second weekend of the Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.I'm trying really hard not to obsess over the wasted money; I'm telling myself that staying home and recuperating was the best option.
As I keep promising, I will report on the films I saw, etc. from the first week soon.Posted by Mattee @ 05:22 PM EST [Link]
TheManShow.com PeriodicTable
Here's The Man Show version of the Periodic Table. Funny as hell, though, as with the show, very hetero-skewed. I think we should do a gay version. Any ideas for elements relevant to queers?
(link via Fredo.)
Posted by Mattee @ 04:47 PM EST [Link]
Wednesday, July 11, 2001
Sick as a dog....
One gift I received in Philadelphia that I wish I hadn't is a strep-like throat infection. Very painful, very contagious. I've been ordered out of work basically for the rest of the week..which is fine, who wants to work with a fever of 101 F?. Since the infection is not bacterial, antibiotics are useless, so I just have to let it run it's course. That also should explain why I haven't reported on the Film Fest yet.. sitting up for any length of time is difficult. I'm going back to bed now....
Posted by Mattee @ 11:13 AM EST [Link]
Greymatter Debut
Yes, I have made the formal switchover to Greymatter, a bit earlier than intended. All the templates are not quite where I want them to be just yet, but the unexplained loss of my archives at Blogger (thank god I had made backup copies to post on my GM site) made the decision for me.
I was able to move the complete Greymatter application from my test directories to my old blog directory, so all of your links should work. Plus, as I said, I was able to salvage copies of my Blogger Archive Files, so even old links should still work.
I love feedback.. Let me know what you think!
Posted by Mattee @ 11:08 AM EST [Link]
I will be using this space to tell you all about my weekend in Philadelphia, as soon as health permits. [more]
Posted by Mattee @ 11:04 AM EST [Link]
Monday, July 9, 2001
Smart Tags are Stupid.
Posted by Mattee @ 09:10 PM EST [Link]
Friday, July 6, 2001
Off to Philadelphia!
I'm taking the train to Philadelphia tomorrow for the first weekend of the Philadelphia Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. It's going to be a weekend of film, food, and fun, hanging out with my much -neglected buddies Joe, Paul, and Bill. I'll be away from the computer, but I'll try to keep notes on the films I see, as well as memorable meals or funny events that occur.
Posted by Mattee @ 09:50 PM EST [Link]
Welcome!
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Posted by Mattee @ 04:57 PM EST [Link]
Uncle!
Had it with add-on comments systems! It's nobody's fault, I just can't get dotcomments to work properly again...I've spent enough time on it. Greymatter, here I come. This will be the next big change you'll see.
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